Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-06
CONDENSED TELKGRAMs.

W. VI
Edwin II. Filter was inaugurated Mayor
Of Philadelphia Monday.
Judge VIM. s. Pierce, Of Philadelphia,
is dead, aged seventy-two.
Tommy Danforth and Patsey o'Le,ry
fought four rounds in New York.
Slosson defeated Schaefer at cusl ion
caroms, At Chicago; score 500 to ass.
The Upper Michigan Peninsula bad the
heaviest snow fall of the season hIoD6 ay
George Skidmore, q notorious Eng isl
thief, wanted in London, was arrosted il
Chicago. ...
B. +. Jones is not . candle lie for re.
election rs Chairman Of the NJ tional Re,
publican Convention.
The total redemption of trad, dollars &c.
cording to the latest return, I'M cunts to
s., ,s72,735.
Theophilus Grifiths, of Scrs ntOn, Pa,
was shot and instantly killed by Joseph
Brooks, both coal miners. ..... >
Ben F. Templeton, prominent citizen
of Liberty, Ind, suicided by. hanging
himself with halter rope.
Governor Bisgs, of Delaware, has ap-
pointed his son John Attorney General of
the State to fill an unexpired term.
John II. Barron, President Of the New
Hampshire Cattle Company, shot himself
fatally at Concord, n. II.
Frank NJ. Langston, son OF the ex-Min-
lister to Haytf shot and fatally wounded
a colored man in q quarrel in Pittsburg.
Noah Harper, a colored man, living nine
miles east of Mechanicsburg, o., whipped
his twelye-year-old child to death.
Herman Schultzler, aged twenty. six,
died ofhydrophobia in Chicago hospital.
He was bitten by dog before Christ
mas.
Colonel Lamont denies that the Presi-
dent intends to take horseback exercise, or
that he intends TO practice gymnastics.
A. n. Sutton, of the Drug and Chemical
Company, Cincinnati, died Of an overdose
of morphine, at the Marine Hospital.
A petition in the Supreme Court Of the
District Of Columbia, TO declare the civil
service unconstitutional, was dismissed.
Philip II. Brock, Democrat, was elected
Mayor Of Columbus, o. The Republicans
will have majority Of the City Council
Chief Justice Wade, of Montana, has de-
cided that the law imposing a license tax
on commercial travellers is uncoustitu-
tional.
John l.. Sullivan, the prize fighter, call
ed on the President during Mondays re-
ception. He says all Cleveland needs is
treatment of Turkish baths.
Mrs. Daniel Slender, of Elkhart county,
Ind, is recovering from serious lines,
through the treatment of TRANSMISSION Of
blood from her husband \ veins.
1t is charged that Surveyor General
Reichart's office, San Francisco. has been
manipulated to swindle the Government,
and that he and others have been indicted
by the Federal grand jury.
At Reading, Pa, large quantity of
dynamite, used for blasting exploded.
Andrew Lueti had both legs blown of and
will die. Two Others, Italians, names not
ascertained, were fearfully injured. Sam.
uel Wertz was also badly hurt.
Judge Colt, OF the T.. s. Circuit Court,
at Boston, in the case of the United States
VS., The American Bell Telephone Com
pany, 10 test the validity OF the Bell pat
ent, denied the motion Of the defendant
for leave TO demur 10 the bill, and also 10
plead matters III defense.
Considerable embarrassment in carrying
out the work of allOtting lands in several
ty TO the Indians is reported at the Indian
Bureau. One OF the greatest opponents Of
the act is the Indian Defense Association,
which has for its President Rev Byron
Sunderland, pastor OF President Cleveland's
church.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
promulgated the following rule ofproceed-
ing: Applications made for the official &C
ton of the Commission shall lie made by
petition, which shall set forth the facts on
which they are founded and be verified by
the oath of the applicant or some authori-
zed agent or attorney.
Land Commissioner Sparks recommends
that patents he issued 10 the Northern
Pacific Railway Company for lands along
so much ofthe road az lies between point
near Duluth, in Minnesota and the Mis-.
souri, River, in Dakota, bat states his
opinion that no patents should he issued to
said company for lands on any portion Of
the road.
The U. s. Supreme Court has decided
the test suit of the New York National
banks against the municipal authorities 10
restrain the collection Of taxes on the
shares of bank stock. The question raised
by the case is whether or not the system
of laws enforced in the State Of New York
is in opposition 10 Section 5,2i9 Of the Re.
yised Statues Of the United States, which
requires that the taxation of shares Of na-
tional banks shall not he at greater rate
than il assessed upon other mOneyed capi-
tai in the hands of individual citizens of
said State" The Court answers that
question in the negative, and ailirms the
decree of the Court below in favor OF the
State.
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